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Monday, 30 June 2014

Flexible Working: giving with one hand

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From today, everyone with more than 26 weeks service has the right to request flexible working and their employer needs to seriously consid...
Thursday, 12 June 2014

Water Cannons: Doing what it says on the Tin

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So London Mayor Boris Johnson has ordered three water cannons to be bought from Germany to be deployed on the streets of London. It has cau...
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Seeing Through The Illusion of Choice

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“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debat...
Thursday, 5 June 2014

D-Day 70 Years on: Why Britain Fought

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In recent weeks, the bravery of the troops who went ashore against the Nazis at the D-Day landings seventy years ago this morning was the s...
Sunday, 1 June 2014

Farage Photos

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Just in case you've been missing Nigel Farage, who hasn't been on the TV for over 4 hours now, here are some photographs. Please sh...
Monday, 26 May 2014

Don't Let The Lights Be Dimmed

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The last 24 hours has been filled with repeated fanfares and breathless TV newspeople proclaiming about the earthquake caused by the increa...
Saturday, 24 May 2014

UKIP - To the Barricades or the Boozer?

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The local election results were declared yesterday with the media trumpeting a fanfare of stories about UKIP breaking through, parroting ...
Wednesday, 21 May 2014

We Are Europe - Change It for the Better 22 May

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For people not profit. For consumers not corporations. For planet, not exploitation. We need a Europe that works for people, not big bu...
Tuesday, 20 May 2014

Guest Post: Bradley Allsop on Greens or UKIP?

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Bradley Allsop explains why a Green vote is better than a UKIP one... The past few months have seen a lot of attention on UKIP in the u...

UKIP hit the doldrums as the Greens Surge

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The media story of the European elections has been UKIP - not whether they would win or not, but by how much. Who could stop Farage and his...
Friday, 16 May 2014

Crash - Nigel Farage on LBC

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Last week, I posited that there was a seminal moment on BBC Question Time when, however slowly, the wheels finally began to come off Nigel ...

Green Euroelections - Cllr Andrew Cooper, Lead candidate for Yorkshire & The Humber Region

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In 2009, Yorkshire & The Humber region saw a rise in the Green Party vote at the European elections, but they were just pipped at the p...
Saturday, 10 May 2014

Green Euroelections - Peter Cranie, Lead candidate for the North West Region

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With the polls showing the Greens' support rising, including several now putting them ahead of the junior government party, the Lib Dem...
Thursday, 8 May 2014

"I have no time for you, sir!"

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"I have no time for you, sir! None!" The rejoinder to UKIP's leader Nigel Farage of a particularly eloquent and passionate b...
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Monday, 21 April 2014

Apocalypse Aye!

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The Scottish opinion polls show the gap between yes and no camps in the independence debate narrowing ever more - the latest from ICM sho...
Monday, 14 April 2014

On The Eve?

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One day, we will say good bye. Nominations for the European elections don't close for another week and a half, but the poll on 22 M...
Wednesday, 2 April 2014

Neither Nigel Nor Nick, for the Common Good

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As I write, we face another couple of hours of the yawn-athon that is the debate between Nigel Clegg and Nick Farage, two neoliberal con...

Take Your Breath Away: Smog Kills Thousands

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Welcome to London   Air quality in England and Wales today is already at dangerous levels in many parts and set to get worse today and ...
Friday, 21 March 2014

Film Review: The Company Men

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Sometimes dvds can sit unwatched for too long; hence the random timing of this piece as although it was made in 2010, I've just watch...
Wednesday, 19 March 2014

Bingo Britain: Osborne & Alexander's Patronising Pranks

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The Budget has provided few surprises: other than the long trailed rise in the tax threshold to £10,500 after 4 years of austerity and pay ...